 The Church used to be a lifeboat rescuing the perishing. Now she is a cruise ship recruiting the promising. Author: Leonard Ravenhill |
| Miracles are the swaddling clothes of infant churches. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| It is a shame when the church itself is a cemetery, where the living sleep above the ground, as the dead do beneath. Author: Thomas Fuller |
| Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves. Author: Thomas Fuller |
The church is in Christ as Eve was in Adam.
- Richard Hooker Author: Assorted Authors |
| A little thing will keep them from the house of God who have no desire to go to it. Author: James H. Aughey |
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| The church is not a select circle of the immaculate, but a home where the outcast may come in. It is not a palace with gate attendants and challenging sentinels along the entrance-ways holding off at arm's-length the stranger, but rather a hospital where the broken-hearted may be healed, and where all the weary and troubled may find rest and take counsel together. Author: James H. Aughey |
| Everyone that hangs around the court does not speak with the king. Author: Thomas Watson |
| The Church is the one institution that exists for those outside it. Author: William Tyndale |
| Men are God's method. The church is looking for better methods; God is looking for better men. Author: E.M. Bounds |
| How much of these destructive elements, esteemed by men, does the devil bring into the church, until all the high, unworldly and holy aims, and heavenly objects of the church are retired and forgotten? Author: E.M. Bounds |
| I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted. Author: Ken Ham |
